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Make REPLICATION privilege checks test current user not authenticated user.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 1 Apr 2013 17:09:29 +0000 (13:09 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 1 Apr 2013 17:09:29 +0000 (13:09 -0400)
commite5fdb8feadd4385671bab0e2c4c57008f3ba8dda
tree26450e1fe5b312ce0a6a9e17e7c2d76ae144915f
parentfe6b242709afe807664ac0dc5daf2d37d29c8e6d
Make REPLICATION privilege checks test current user not authenticated user.

The pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() functions checked the privileges
of the initially-authenticated user rather than the current user, which is
wrong.  For example, a user-defined index function could successfully call
these functions when executed by ANALYZE within autovacuum.  This could
allow an attacker with valid but low-privilege database access to interfere
with creation of routine backups.  Reported and fixed by Noah Misch.

Security: CVE-2013-1901
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c
src/include/miscadmin.h